Saturday, September 21, 2013

Mass demonstration (>10.000 crowds) seem to be of the past. Nowadays around 1.000 of predominantly older protesters seems to be the quantity that caters for a successful demonstration. The full set is here.

Saturday, August 03, 2013

Back from a very interesting European three week road trip to three cities with three themes: Berlin/#designforcrisis (pictures here) Avallon/#quantifiedcontext (pictures here) and Geneva/#openinnovation (pictures here). Met amazing people with lots of ideas worth sharing!

Monday, July 29, 2013

Back from an amazing unconference Kinnernet Europe in Avallon, France. 72 Hours of conversation with an international group of academics, investors, media executives, artists, start ups and more. The digital age is only just starting....More pictures are here.

Saturday, June 29, 2013

Damn food taste activities on the Museumplein demonstrating the importance of food and the amount of over the date food that is thrown away. A lot of people picking up the free lunch. The full set is here.

Happy to see a great new addition to the maker movement in Amsterdam iFabrica. A thorough selection of tools in an industrial environment could work very well. Will not be the last time I visit. The full set is here.

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Roderick's great-grandmother started the oldest youth symphony orchestra in The Hague, The Netherlands. On Saturday June 15 the main jubilee activities were held. Roderick's niece Gina plays in the orchestra (right behind the conductor).

Saturday, June 08, 2013

Monday, June 03, 2013

Amazing to see how fast Roderick grasps all of the digital world and how he thinks that the amount of information and entertainment is normal to have. At his age, not even a fraction of it was available to me ;-)Also nice to test out the new Leica M 240 again at high iso values. A big improvement indeed and a welcome one too.

Friday, May 31, 2013

Thanks to Pieter Krigee of Nivo Schweitzer I am shooting with the latest Leica M 240. Great beast that appears to be feeling much better at home at high iso values. Looking forward taking it more to shoot later this weekend.

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Every photo essay requires certain shots. One of those is the scene/location shot. What better for Kingsday in Amsterdam then the canals with flag and boats full of people celebrating. The full essay is here.

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Sunday, April 21, 2013

An interesting afternoon at Mediamatic with artist Tinkebell reviewing her save the world projects (her nude calender did not sell well at all...) and the wild man of Dutch cinema Cyrus Frisch talking about his films. Intense happening. The full set can be found here.

Last week
I had the unique opportunity to visit Fukushima
with the volunteers of Safecast, an
organisation that measures radiation. For the first time in two years the area
has been given a better access, allowing us to come deeper into the wasteland
it has become. The radiation in the accessible area is though still much much
higher as in Tokyo.

It is
unbelievable how the Tsunami has created havoc and as a side effect caused the
nuclear disaster as collateral damage that came with it. The area is mostly
depopulated with complete empty villages and is being cleaned by liquidators.
All over you see big ‘garbage bags’
full of contaminated material, obviously not even the tip of the iceberg... It
will take many many years before everything will be cleaned, if ever. A second
Chernobyl has been created. An area where only old people are still willing to
live combined with a standstill of economic activity.